A new feature for Android phone users can provide 911 dispatchers with live video of an emergency as it unfolds. The new feature also allows dispatchers to walk the caller through CPR and other ...

In an emergency, Android users can now share real-time visual details with 911 dispatchers, bridging a critical information gap that can hinder quick, effective emergency responses. Today Google rolls ...

Washington County Wireless Communications has completed a significant upgrade to its public safety radio system, retiring the old low-band system in favor of a modern digital network. The transition, ...

The water level in the rain-swollen Guadalupe River was rising fast and the man calling the emergency dispatcher from a flooded home in the Texas Hill Country sounded desperate. “No place for us to go ...

SANTIAGO, Chile — President José Jerí of Peru said his government on Friday would declare a state of emergency along the country’s southern border and deploy more armed forces to the area as a large ...

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Virginia State Police are investigating two separate highway crashes that occurred within 30 minutes of each other. A fatal crash on Interstate 295 in Prince George County killed two people in a ...

PRINCE GEORGE COUNTY, Va. (WRIC) — Two people were killed in a crash with a parked tractor-trailer on the shoulder of Interstate 295 in Prince George County on Tuesday. The crash occurred on I-295 ...